CD Reviews

A good drum & bass album

Singletrack Blazer | Huntersville, NC USA | 12/10/2002

(3 out of 5 stars)

"This is a good album for drum and bass fans. However, if you're buying this strictly because you're an Art of Noise fan, you'll probably be disappointed. You can occasionally make out connections to the Art of Noise songs that are being massively remixxed and that is a special treat for someone like me. Also, at least one of the songs is too repetitive even for me."

Absolute disappointment!

Vlad | russianwriter.net | 07/12/2003

(3 out of 5 stars)

"If you decided to check this one out for the "Art of Noise" name on it? Ruuuun away from it. I actually had to throw it away, this is how upset I was. Imagine buying new CD by J.M.Jarre to find "Metallica" on it. If you want the best remix album by "Art of Noise"? Go to "Ambient Collection".
"russianwriter.net""

It's not the Art of Noise, but what is?

Larry M. Coleman | Avon, OH United States | 01/10/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"At first glance, it seems true that this CD could just as well be called "Plastic Bananas: The Drum and Bass Collection" for all it has to do with AON. However, if you can get past this disappointment, it is an excellent compilation. Though there are few explicit sounds from the AON's catalog, this CD as a whole does as good a job in sketching a landscape in sound as the best discs of the real AON, such as In No Sense? Nonsense! or their newer Seduction of Claude Debussy. In fact, it may be the most imaginative CD of its genre I've ever heard, managing to be evocative while conforming to the rather strict DnB form. AON fans tend to be the kind who don't want to listen to the same trite sound over and over again anyway, and this disc is no less original or interesting than one written by AON themselves. Though I've owned it for years, it's still in the short stack of CDs I play often, which is high praise indeed."